ON May 18 there was yet another letter in the string of right wing views currently running in this column, this one from an anonymous writer claiming to be a council worker, and entitled ‘Betrayed by Labour’.

He states that his council tax is going up!

Well, even if they do decide to unfreeze the tax, it is the owners of large Band H houses in Chilworth that will feel the pinch. I did not realise we were paying council workers so much!

I doubt very much if anonymous has ever voted Labour in his life.

I am not a member of the Labour Party but I do get tired of these regular right wing rants, particularly the one from Mr West on May 10, ‘The Labour Waste’.

Some people have short memories. The main reason that Labour won such a landslide victory in 1997 was the state that our schools and hospitals were in after years of Government cuts. I know that Millbrook School had temporary classrooms with ceilings held up with Acro jacks, and notices on the light switches warning not to switch them on if it was raining! No wonder New Labour had to borrow so much for rebuilding.

Give it a rest please, right wing Tories, you do not fool anyone. Let us see if the new Southampton City Council can improve the low morale of its workers and get the city moving forwards again.

Otherwise please push off to the USA and pay huge sums for your health insurance, and join the soup queues if you get the sack.

Personally I prefer a more humane society.

C OLIVER, Southampton.